Liz soon made it to her dorm and hastily she slammed the door behind her, locking the deadbolt with a satisfying click and sliding with her back against the thick wood to the carpeted floor below, all while a deep and relief-filled sigh escaped from her lungs and permeated the dead silence around her. A bit of a lowering of the heart and a curling of the lips into a scowl of displeasure as she noticed there were not one, but two beds occupying her room, which meant for the third gods-forsaken time in a row, she would be forced to endure the nail shredding, unwelcomed agony of having a damn roommate. The gods of Nephiros have pity upon Elizabeth if she was paired with one of those snooty Draculina whores or worse....a she-wolf during flea season. Now Liz's sigh was that of irritation, of perturbment and distaste towards the fact of having to share her assigned living space with the likes of...well...ANYONE! For the moment being though, before her roommate would be revealed to her, at least Liz could revel in her final few moments being alone.
Carelessly she tossed her bag onto the bed she chose for herself, the closest one to the window. That way, she could stare out into the obsidian shades of night and gaze upon the moon and the thousands of tiny, glistening stars in the sky, as she always did when she had trouble sleeping.....which was frequent.... Half...actually all the time, it weirded out her last two roommates that Liz was pretty much an insomniac, but could you blame anyone for not sleeping....when she denied the sweetest and most peaceful of dreams.....and instead have her head poisoned, toxified by so many haunting nightmares, so many disturbing and tormenting memories of a past better forgotten? But of course.....why would they even care about Liz? Even supernatural beings, different in so many ways from human beings, but they were still capable of the same cruelty, the same bitter prejudice. Next, after she had chosen where she was going to sleep for the entire year, Liz removed her hoodie and cast it aside. Underneath it, she was wearing a black and slightly worn
Metallica tank, and there was also......the very things she hid under so many long sleeves, the physical manifestations of her anger, her sadness and her hatred glaring back at her upon her arms, reddened, some bulging horrendously from her skin because she had gone over them so many times. In fact....
they were all ugly....covering almost every bit of her arms. Liz.....she was so ashamed to even look at them, but try as she may.....it was a disease, a horrible pestilence ravaging her young body....a disease for which Liz felt....there was no cure at all. And to think....she was going to add to them one more. Liz somberly strolled over to her bag, pulling from it a rather small but sharp
dagger, which she then placed the glimmering blade against the palm of her hand. This wasn't one of her usual cuts, the ones where she would bleed herself...just to find some way of emptying the misery filling within her. No, this cut, now being made by the drawing of the sharp blade against her frail skin, the warm, almost pleasant trickle of blood into her hand, it was a cut for a ritual.
Tight, Liz clenched her hand with a short grimace to the searing burn, issuing forth more drops of precious crimson life to spill from her wound. She dripped her blood all across her bed, every drop soaking into the pale blue bed linens, until the stain altogether resembled a dark red pentagram. Then, she began the chant, "In the name of Bah'Lahk, Keeper of the Black Pit. I, demon of Tha'agorn call forth the shadows of Nephiros to arise and consume thy dwelling in never ending darkness. May light be abolished, may warmth turn into cold, and may those who threaten me be turned away by Bah'Lahk's nurturing miasma. I call to thee, shadows, Come Forth!" The pentagram lit with an ominous scarlet light at Liz's powerful beckon, and then instantly her bed and all its surrounding area was swallowed whole in a thick, billowing, almost sentient cloud of demonic shadows. "Much better..." Liz whispered quite satisfied of herself as she wiped the left over blood on her pants-leg and traversed the dark fog. The humans, they had this particular saying. No pain, no gain. Well, it must be true, Liz figured, laying peacefully in her bed and staring up into the swirling void of black that drifted over her. Despite the tinge in her hand, the constant throbbing, it was worth creating yet another barrier from the outside world, yet another place.....to escape.